"I..."
"This isn't far from land. At your speed, you can reach Great Xia in two minutes at most... For her, can't you even hold on for two minutes?"
Lu Baoyou fell silent.
"Go... Go back and see her one last time. You go first. I'll be there soon."
"You're not going back?"
"My sister's body is still in these waters... I need to find her first, then I'll go back." Su Zhe supported him as he slowly rose from the wreckage. "You don't have much time. Go."
Hearing the urgency in Su Zhe's voice, Lu Baoyou felt that something was off... but as his life force rapidly drained away, his consciousness gradually blurred as well.
That face flashed through his mind once more.
"Alright... I'll go see her."
He took a deep breath and forcibly spread a pair of dark crimson wings from his back. Dragging his battered body, he flew toward Great Xia at full speed...
As Lu Baoyou vanished beyond the horizon, Su Zhe's expression gradually turned grave. He turned to look toward the distant sea...
A sheet of gray mist rolled in from the other side of the ruins, slowly drawing closer.
After Lin Qiye activated the Second Sacred Covenant, there had been no more mist in this world... Yet this sudden fog was far denser and more powerful in aura than the mist that had once shrouded Earth.
And now, there was only one being capable of creating such mist...
Within the hazy fog, the silhouette of a black-robed figure emerged.
"What a self-righteous fool..." He glanced down at the devastated ruins and sneered. "With this body of mine, killing you would have been rather difficult... But who told you to be so stupid?
"I suppose that even at the moment of your death, you